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59 projects

Sivasakthi

Urban Continuum: An alternative learning ecosystem

Urban Continuum transforms the city into a continuous learning environment. By dissolving the boundaries between campus and community, it creates an urban ecosystem where education emerges through everyday encounters, public participation, and shared experiences.

Keerat

Urban Commons: Space beneath Transit Infrastructure

The thesis looked upon transit infrastructure as an extension to its locality that continuously transforms; creating spaces for newer uses. These spaces have histories of how different people have used them as a spatial resource.

Miguelangel and Kevin

HARLEM USTOPIA

Harlem Ustopia reimagines East Harlem’s future after forced displacement. From a demolished landscape, a synthetic network grows, reconnecting memory, public life, and housing through adaptive modular structures and autonomous technologies. A new community, regrown.

Tobias

Threaded City

Threaded City reimagines Harlem as a network of cultural, housing, mobility, and wellness ribbons. Inspired by jazz, the design fosters resilience, sustainability, and inclusivity, weaving together community life, nature, and innovation into a dynamic urban fabric.

Juanes

Ecotopia in San Nicolas Valley

The San Nicolás Valley in eastern Antioquia, Colombia, faces ecological degradation. This project integrates elevated housing, silos, and vertical farming to restore harmony between urban growth and nature, fostering regenerative development.

Taorem

Blurring The Line:

Urban slums, having both the elasticity of slums and the staticity of urban structures tend to create a distinct line that divides them. This physically visible line is only a glimpse of the contrast between urban poor and city dwellers.

TGGG

Child's Perspective

The "Dynamic Urban Continuum" was inspired by a single child's vision in the center of our busy city, and with curiosity as their guide, they set out to reinvent urban living.

Ramses

Integration through COLLISION

Reinterpreting the community center from a space to meet to a place to live.

Anastasia

XL CONTEXT HUB

The idea for the building is the urban fabric are retained and shifted vertically into a new three-dimensional urban organizational grid., becoming the new framework. The structure we have visual and circulatory freedom and sunlight to reach deep into the buildings.

Chenlu and 2 others

Urban Oasis

The contradiction between the encroachment of urbanization and the increasing tension of agricultural land has also become the most prominent problem in the current stage of rapid urban development. We need an "urban agricultural landscape system", as a unique continuous "patch" type of urban green ecosystem-the "urban oasis".

Tuğçe

[UP]Town

Home is a space that can be personalized, its boundaries can be redrawn, and it’s personal, flexible and reproducible over time. For that reason, this project aims to offer everybody who feels homeless a space where they can create their own home.